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In the excitement leading up to April’s presidential election in Nigeria, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) may have gotten a little carried away with its mandate to have a clean and fair elections....
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Nigerians are excited for the presidential election on April 9th. It is shaping up to be an interesting race, with the current president even announcing his candidacy...
Published on: Jan 14 2011 by Wayan Vota - Comments Off on The Status of Google Baraza Three Months Later
Last October, Google launched Baraza to make the Internet more locally relevant in Africa and bring more people online. Google says:
A large number of questions that are typed into Google’s search engine by users are...
Published on: Jan 12 2011 by Linda Raftree - Comments Off on ICT4D Twitter Chat on Friday: Distance Learning Options for ICT4D Practitioners
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A little more than a month ago, I wrote a post asking ‘Where is the ICT4D distance learning.’ Ernst Suur and I had been trying to figure that out since...
As you may have noticed, I’ve been compiling 2011 technology predictions on the ICTworks Network, looking for trends and ideas that would shape our industry this year. After reading those posts, talking with technologists,...
.ng is the country-code Top Level Domain (cc-TLD) for Nigeria. In plain English, it is Nigeria’s domain name system that identifies websites related to Nigeria. It is currently available for registration only in the following...
Dr. Clint Rogers interviewed faculty and professionals around Africa for why they feel most information and communications for development (ICT4D) projects fail. He’s condensed the interviews into this video of insights:
Much...
Published on: Jan 04 2011 by Ritse Erumi - Comments Off on The Bi-Weekly ICT4D Retrospective: Important Links for Dec 8 – Jan 4, 2011
Welcome to the ICTworks bi-weekly ICT4D Retrospective, where we condense the last two weeks of news into a succinct list of links for your perusal. If you want your news to be featured, email them to ritse [at] ritseonline...
I am an Ethiopian that has not been back in Africa in 4 years and so I am counting down to my very first trip to Ghana and I am excited. Ghana is arguably one of the main hubs for ICT in Africa.
With 5 mobile providers operating...
Published on: Dec 30 2010 by Eric Blantz - Comments Off on ICT4Social Enterprise Business Plan Competition Finalists
A few weeks back I had the privilege of serving as one of 4 judges for the business plan competition that is the culmination of Assistant Professor Tapan Parikh’s graduate course, “ICT for Social Enterprise“,...
